We are a collective of practitioners and researchers exploring how creative methods can support deep change towards just and ecological cultures. We advocate for anti-racism and for deep sustainability whenever possible in our work and in our lives.
We are interested in how people can better access deep time perspectives, attentiveness, diversity and inclusion, complexity thinking, and expanded spheres of empathy and caring, including the ecological world.
From a more poetic angle, we think of re-imaginary as an expedition into mindscapes of the imagination. A search for practices, metaphors, mental models, and narratives that support ecological regeneration and the well-being of future generations.
It's also an ongoing action research experiment.
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Engage the senses, surface emotions, support diverse ways of communicating and processing information, harness different forms of knowledge, and weave in ecological mindsets
Spark new spaces of possibility in people’s imagination, leading to innovation and renewed clarity, purpose, and motivation
Use in co-production and strategic planning processes, community engagement, leadership & capacity building, climate & environmental communication, and participatory academic research
Discover, share, and discuss creative methods for creating deep change [search methods and resources]
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Engage the senses, surface emotions, support diverse ways of communicating and processing information, harness different forms of knowledge, and weave in ecological mindsets
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Spark new spaces of possibility in people’s imagination, leading to innovation and renewed clarity, purpose, and motivation
Use in co-production and strategic planning processes, community engagement, leadership & capacity building, climate & environmental communication, and participatory academic research
Engage the senses, surface emotions, support diverse ways of communicating and processing information, harness different forms of knowledge, and weave in ecological mindsets
Spark new spaces of possibility in people’s imagination, leading to innovation and renewed clarity, purpose, and motivation
Use in co-production and strategic planning processes, community engagement, leadership & capacity building, climate & environmental communication, and participatory academic research
Creative methods have the potential to help uncover and support the inherent resourcefulness and wisdom already existing amongst groups of people.
When used well, they can:
- Spark new perspectives
- Strengthen collaboration and trust in groups
- Get below the surface of issues
They work by creating the conditions to a) deepen reflexivity and openness to new perspectives and possibilities; and b) tap into multiple types of intelligence and different styles of processing and communicating information (including experiential, emotional, somatic).
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We often use Theory U from the Presencing Institute at MIT as an organizing principle for process design, and Social-Ecological Transformations as a framework for understanding place-based change and human-nature connections. Caring and deep ecology ethics lie at the heart of our values and assumptions.
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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